Any other tools around that tell me the firmware of my Seagate HDD?

Hi there,

My Win2K box is running on a nForce2-based mainboard (Delta ILSR by MSI) and
these boards would support IDE by default, but also provide additional SATA
support by a second controller.

This seems to be the problem where the Seagate guys did not test thoroughly
enough.
This tool:

http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/utils/drivedetect.exe

*should* be able to detect the Seagate drive, but isn't because it's
attached to the second controller.
Nor would it show up properly in Windows either (Device Manager et al), but
merely as a "Scsi Device". No serial number, no model number - nothing.

Now I made another attempt in downloading SeaTools for Windows:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seato...ndowssetup.exe

After a LOT of time for detection, I get this message box:

Not found
Void ThrowWithExtendedInfo(System.Management.Management Status)

Lovely. This site showed up when google'ing the error:
http://support.neutex.net/forums/thread/260.aspx

and suggests to turn off Daemon Tools and the like. Close but no cigar
either.

Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Is there any way to obtain such tool?

-Andreas

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:04 +0100, "Andreas Eibach"
wrote:



Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Is there any way to obtain such tool?

-Andreas


In a reply to me Arno suggested a lil proggy called speedfan. got it
with from the first hit on google. it tells me the firmware version
on my, still not functioning seagate. then again drive detect worked
on this drive too.

Hope it helps,

LB

In message "Andreas Eibach"
was claimed to have wrote:

Hi there,

My Win2K box is running on a nForce2-based mainboard (Delta ILSR by MSI) and
these boards would support IDE by default, but also provide additional SATA
support by a second controller.

This seems to be the problem where the Seagate guys did not test thoroughly
enough.
This tool:

http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/utils/drivedetect.exe

*should* be able to detect the Seagate drive, but isn't because it's
attached to the second controller.
Nor would it show up properly in Windows either (Device Manager et al), but
merely as a "Scsi Device". No serial number, no model number - nothing.

Now I made another attempt in downloading SeaTools for Windows:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seato...ndowssetup.exe

After a LOT of time for detection, I get this message box:

Not found
Void ThrowWithExtendedInfo(System.Management.Management Status)

Lovely. This site showed up when google'ing the error:
http://support.neutex.net/forums/thread/260.aspx

and suggests to turn off Daemon Tools and the like. Close but no cigar
either.

Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Is there any way to obtain such tool?

Odds are good that your controller or driver don't expose this
information. Check the BIOS, see if you can set change the controller
mode from RAID or AHCI to BASIC or LEGACY, from there the DOS version of
SeaTools should work (or Windows, if you're able to boot into Windows.
I'd just burn the SeaTools DOS CD and be done with it though)

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:04 +0100, "Andreas Eibach"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Have you tried the Windows port of smartmontools?
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/download.html

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

"Franc Zabkar" schrieb:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:04 +0100, "Andreas Eibach"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Have you tried the Windows port of smartmontools?
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/download.html

Thank you, I will give it a try!
Thanks also to Arno/LoBatt for the hint with speedfan.

Meanwhile, I also tried hdparm for win32.
Only found my harddisks on the primary controller, not on the second one
(which is configured as non-RAID, btw)

-Andreas

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:04 +0100, "Andreas Eibach"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Hi there,

My Win2K box is running on a nForce2-based mainboard (Delta ILSR by MSI) and
these boards would support IDE by default, but also provide additional SATA
support by a second controller.

This seems to be the problem where the Seagate guys did not test thoroughly
enough.
This tool:

http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/utils/drivedetect.exe

*should* be able to detect the Seagate drive, but isn't because it's
attached to the second controller.
Nor would it show up properly in Windows either (Device Manager et al), but
merely as a "Scsi Device". No serial number, no model number - nothing.

Now I made another attempt in downloading SeaTools for Windows:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seato...ndowssetup.exe

After a LOT of time for detection, I get this message box:

Not found
Void ThrowWithExtendedInfo(System.Management.Management Status)

Lovely. This site showed up when google'ing the error:
http://support.neutex.net/forums/thread/260.aspx

and suggests to turn off Daemon Tools and the like. Close but no cigar
either.

Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Is there any way to obtain such tool?

-Andreas

Your motherboard manual states that your board has a Promise 20376
SATA interface.

I notice that Seagate's FreeDOS based HDD and controller enumeration
tool, SeaEnum.exe, includes the Promise PDC20376 controller as a
supported device.

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/Moose/SeaEnum.exe
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/Moose/seaenum.upx (unpacked)

The output of this utility includes Device, Model, SN, FW, and
Controller.

However, I notice that there is a warning message to the effect that
"Parts of this program can delete ALL data on the disks on this
system". This seems strange because SeaEnum.exe is used with Seagate's
recent "fix" for the Barracuda 7200.11 "bricking" problem.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

In message Franc Zabkar
was claimed to have wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:04 +0100, "Andreas Eibach"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Hi there,

My Win2K box is running on a nForce2-based mainboard (Delta ILSR by MSI) and
these boards would support IDE by default, but also provide additional SATA
support by a second controller.

This seems to be the problem where the Seagate guys did not test thoroughly
enough.
This tool:

http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/utils/drivedetect.exe

*should* be able to detect the Seagate drive, but isn't because it's
attached to the second controller.
Nor would it show up properly in Windows either (Device Manager et al), but
merely as a "Scsi Device". No serial number, no model number - nothing.

Now I made another attempt in downloading SeaTools for Windows:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seato...ndowssetup.exe

After a LOT of time for detection, I get this message box:

Not found
Void ThrowWithExtendedInfo(System.Management.Management Status)

Lovely. This site showed up when google'ing the error:
http://support.neutex.net/forums/thread/260.aspx

and suggests to turn off Daemon Tools and the like. Close but no cigar
either.

Now the only way out would be a *3rd party* tool to detect the firmware
version of my 750GB drive (ST3750330AS, SATA300, 32MB cache).

Is there any way to obtain such tool?

-Andreas

Your motherboard manual states that your board has a Promise 20376
SATA interface.

I notice that Seagate's FreeDOS based HDD and controller enumeration
tool, SeaEnum.exe, includes the Promise PDC20376 controller as a
supported device.

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/Moose/SeaEnum.exe
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/Moose/seaenum.upx (unpacked)

The output of this utility includes Device, Model, SN, FW, and
Controller.

However, I notice that there is a warning message to the effect that
"Parts of this program can delete ALL data on the disks on this
system". This seems strange because SeaEnum.exe is used with Seagate's
recent "fix" for the Barracuda 7200.11 "bricking" problem.

That warning is, I believe, part of Seatools in general.